WSROC - Credit Categories

Urban Design

Urban Design Credits aim to ensure urban morphology supports passive cooling with the goal of improving human comfort.

Cool Streets

Cool Streets Credits contribute to creating “cool lines” in urban landscapes, for people to move and recreate outdoors even in hot conditions.

Cool Homes

Cool Homes promote passive design principles for greater resilience to high temperatures and potential power failures during extreme heat.

Cool Parks

Cool Parks Credits focus on creating a mosaic of cool outdoor spaces where people can spend time outdoors even in hot conditions.

Cool Buildings

Cool buildings focus on workplaces, community hubs and places of worship where people can gather for shelter from very hot conditions.

Innovative New Technology

These credits recognise developments that advance urban heat performance through use of new technologies.

Heat safe communities

Get guidance on urban heat resilience measures your project can look at to help manage the risks coming from acute urban heat events.

Ratings for all urban development types and scales

Based on the latest in urban heat science and practices, the Cool Suburbs Assessment guides you through a series of simple steps to deliver a heat resilience rating for a development - from precinct level to individual buildings.